[CF-metadata] Same parameter, different meaning (pressure)

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:22:01 +0100

Dear Steve, Nan et al.

I think it would be fine to have a CF standard name of
sea_water_pressure_at_sea_floor
which is certainly an oceanographically useful quantity. We haven't used the
phrase at_sea_floor hitherto, but sea_floor appears in other standard names
and there are many quantities which have at_LEVEL phrases.

The pressure measured at a depth specified by a vertical coordinate would
naturally be called just sea_water_pressure, I think. This is also an
oceanographically meaningful quantity in its own right. The purpose for which
you use it (deducing the tilt of the sensor) does not have to be indicated by
the standard name.

Best wishes

Jonathan
Received on Wed Aug 27 2008 - 11:22:01 BST